Intimations.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY SEPTEMBER.
On arst September at Shangbai
Mrs. R. C. PHILIPPO, 'a'daughter.
On and September, at Shanghai, of Capt F. Boyd of a daughter-(pr
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HONGKONG, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1905.
HONGKONG'S BANIZATION.
In the course of their remarks in the Legislative Council on the Estimates for next year both the Hon. Mr. Shewan and the Hon. Mr. Gershom Stewart directed at tention to the large amount devoted to the Sanitary Department, and expressed the opinion that the sun estimated was con siderably in excess of the Colony's require. ments Mr. Shewan characterised the Es. timate for sanitary purposes as enormous"
JUAN MADRA, A CHI American, bóth Sun
were foun
average of Detention.
IT is Interesting to recall that, in the course of his review of the condition of the Colony during the five years of his administration, Sir Henry Blake said No reconstruction of the city or advance of material wealth should be allowed to, interfere with the development by education of the minds and character of the people. This is the foundation upon which our hopes must rest for the stability of the Colony of the future, and it is not being neglected.
THE captain of the steamer Navia recently. reported that he had seen at a distance of 40 miles a great volume of flame and smoke from
"that:1
persons
twenty-seven. Minion officials „able, stailbilc
the crater at Savall, Samoa, which was active that the Empress
Three years ago
Nanking@hava sub helping the sufferers
and cited, the example of Canton wher curtailed in the slightest degree. So long a brilliantly erupting on August 10, when the needed at once, as all the c
and has since beRYRERE,
been quiet. A letter from the island confirmed the news. The flames shot gooft, high, and the crater was still
Nausa passed. There are about 2,000 natives and a few whites on the island. It is not thought that there have been any casualties.
stroyed and thousands of
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over "Coolmen are: mployed; the Sanitary Departmentä!!! person seldom comes into personal contact with the Sanitary officials, and is therefore accustomed to fancy that they number s handful at the most This is not to however. We are most willing to
know ledge that the employes of the Sanitary Board are constantly engaged in clearing out the slums in the west and east ends and in preventing the accumulation of dirt among the lower class Chinese; but the necessity for the employment of such a large number of persons is at times disputed. The Sanitary Board is beyond doubt one of the most important public departments in Hongkong, and no one would desire, we venture to think, that its utility should be
it performs its duties efficiently it will re- although modern sanitation is unknown the mortality from plague is not greater than it ceive the support of all citizens; whenever it BULL DOGs in Hongkong, while Mr. Gershom falls then it becomes a danger to the city. Stewart said "The amount of $491,654 With no idea to advocate the impairing of put down for sanitary expenses seems en. its efficiency, we share the opinion of the ormous. This is a -subject wherein there Unofficial Members of Council that the is the greatest divergence of views. There 8491,645 stated to be required next year to are many residents in Hongkong who do maintain the Colony in a sanitary condition not agree with the remarks of the Un-is susceptible of a reduction. In his fare official Members of the Legislative Councilwell address to the Council, Sir Henry Blake under this head. They contend that it said: "That any system of sanitation with in eminently desirable that the sanitary even scrupulous cleanliness could render conditions of the Colony should be main healthy areas in which the registered popula tained in the highest state of efficiency. tion is 1,000 to the acre, or 640,000 to the In the past. Hongkong has gained a square mile, (and I have reason to believe somewhat unenviable name for plague that the registered population is considerably epidemics, and in the South as well as in below the real density), is not to be expected. BULLDOG) Bars' Aloj
8 doz. pts.$25. Per doz. pla. $3.25 the North it seems to be an axiom that, if The difficulty must be solved by the creation "BÜLLD30"
any disease is. floating around, Hongkong of a new city by resumption, resale, and ts. $4.50 is certain to afford a lodgment for the epi reconstruction.".. "..pls. $3.00 demic: The curious part of the belief is that people in Singapore and Shanghai are under splits 52.40 the impression that plague is endemic in Hongkong, whereas the residents in this pts. $3.00 Colony seldom hear of the plague cases And certainly do not allow themselves to be Splits £2.40 affected by the reports as to the cases
treated. While admitting that it is necca Bary to provide for the extinction of disease A. S. WATSON & CO., in the Colony, we do not fall in with the view that this desideratum can be attained only
To the end of time, no doubt, or at least until by a thorough system of sanitary inspection, The International Walking Maich, at Shang-perience the greed for gold, coolies will con the millenium, when people will no longer ex as is believed to be the case in certain quar hai, is to take place on the 26th November next. inne to gratify their desire for dice and fantan ters. It is an admitted fact that the mortality
For a long time past the police have enden statistics show a marked reduction in deaths. MR. W. R. Hayes, of the Imperial Maritimo voured to put a stop to this form of recreation which might be attributed to the more sani-Customs, has been transferred from Amoy to by raiding houses and matbeds by the score
Canton. tary conditions of the city, and such being
But gambling still flourishes, and this morning [32 the case the efforts of the Sanitary Depart
the weirdest, gauntest locking gang of games ment cannot be too highly praised. It is
ter ever hustled into a dock stood shuffling behind the pen at thid Magistracy. They had not disputed that Hongkong, as the leading
their excuses which proved of no avail au the shipping part in the world, stands in a
Two companies of the and Royal West Kent Magistrato fined the leaders in sums ranging peculiar position. Anything that aflects the Regiment will move into camp bear Old Kow-from- $60 to $100, and, mulcted the others in health of the Colony, naturally affects the Joon City for musketry on the t6th October. amounts varying from 5 to $3. shipping trade of the port. Hongkong as the nearest port to Canton is apt to be over. run with any discase which may originate in that sink of insanitary conditions and it is ing 'defamatory statements in relation to the Stonehenge the other day and look part in the municatiods in future especially as Mr. Sultor turned, and were giving tip hope
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The British squadron is expected at Woosung About the 11th of November next.
RELIAULE report which has escaped the „Japanese censor was received in San Francisco on and inst, and states that the investigation made into the cause of the destruction of the flagship Mikara discloses the fact that the ex- plosion came from the outside, the damaged plates of the vessel being all bent inwardı. The Japanese authorities still insist that the explosion was due to internal causes, main- taining the theory of ignition from defective electric wiring. There is still counfderable un- rest throughout the empire. It is feared that the discontent will be increased by the return of the troops from the front. ACCORDING in reports from the experts sant by the Government to Fushup, the coalfield there must be regarded as one of the richest in the world. The depth of the coal layers is stated to be nearly 60 feet and the total quantity of coal is estimated at at least 300 million tons, estimating the value at to yen per ton, the worth of the mine is put at 3,000 million yen. The quality of the coal is very good and is said to be superior to that from the Kiusho mines, The Government intend to make use of the
THE Yokohama Specie Bank has now opened coal at the Edamitau Iron Works. It is not branches at Tis-ling and Osaka.
yet certain whether the Fushun mine will be worked by the Government or by privato on THE death is announced, at Sydney, of Mr. terprise, James P. Dowling, editor of the Sydney Mall.
MAJOR-GENERAL. and Mrs. Villiers Hatton re. turned to the Colony by the Empress of Chima this afternoon.
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It is reported that the editor of a native jour. pal at Amoy has been fined $1,500 for publish. recent disturbance, concerning two American
subjects.
Six hundred and thirty-seven members of the Ancient Order of Druids made a pilgrimage to initiation with mystic rites of twenty-five new brothers, including Sir Edmund Antrabus, the owner of Stonehenge. An altar was erected GERMANY proposes to raise an additional in front of the greatest trilthon, whete Lain 5,000,000 upon tobacco and £3,000,000 upender, the head of the Order, stood with the most beer, and to devote the money largely to the noble Grand Arch, the most noble Arches, fund which is being provided to meet increased the Grand Arche" wearing a gown of blue and gold and long beard with a profusion of symp. naval expenditure.
bols and orders around him. All carried brass sickles at the ends of stuves or spears. The initiation ceremony resembles somewhat that of the Freemasons. A Druidic band played, concluding with " All sound the Oak," sung to
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THE Kokumin reports that the shipment of the troops for Japan from the front will commence at the end of October. It is expected that the whole operation of bringing home the men will occupy about six months,
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THURSDAY, the ashes al beings he ein by day of Their Majcsiles the King and Queen of Fortugal, Mr. A. G. Romano, Consul-Gencia! dence, Duart, Arbuthnot Road, from 11 am, till 1 pm.
for Portugal, will be "At Home,' at his "resi
84, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, against Canton that the Sanitary Board of Hongkong have to be especially watch. ful. While all the precautionary measures that commend themselves to the Sanitary authorities should adopted, rigid economy might be exercised whereby the large vote of nearly half-a-million dollars might be capable of considerable retrenchment. Little or no precautions are taken at Canton to prevent the annual recurrence of plague and the outbreak is never worse there than it is in Hongkong, where a small army of inspectors are employed in keeping the city uncontaminated. The question. might be suggested: If plague or any disease exists in Hongkong under the present conditions how much worse would the outbreak become if these precautions were neglected? So far as plague is concerned, although thorough believers in all precautions suggested by science, we cannot blink at the fact that its termination here in Hongkong synchronizes with that in Canton year after year. Although it is difficult to say what are the health con- ditions of a city like Canton, and there is really no ground for arguing that the health THE 129th Baluchis go into camp at Customs statistics of that city can be compared Paia for their annual training on the 14th peox and remain there for a month, after which the with those of Hongkong, where exact 119th Infantry and two companies of the records of the presence of disease are Royal West Kents go under convas for a published for, the information of the people, similar period. Two other companies of the there is, nevertheless, the curious coin-West Kents will undergo their annual training cidence that an epidemic of plague in the from the 27th December until the aóth January, neighbouring city has not been known to 1996. outlast that in our own midat. We cannot deny the fact that the sum of $491,645.does stem large It has been urged on us that no amount is too large if the health of the residents is to be preserved. The real question, however, would seem RHEIMS-CHAMPAGNE to be whether the Sanitary Department gives value for the money which it expende. There are many opinions on that point, and
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syth July, 1905.
Five American multi millionaires recently slept one night at Claridge's feel. Their aggregate wealth was computed at 45,000,000, Damely, Rockefeller, Jay Gould, sixteen Westinghours, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and two Whitneys.
the tune of the National Anthem,
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A CALCUTTA wire of the 7th inst., says that. John A. Booth, a Canadian, who has followed a course of fraud and deception in the Fay Ess! and India for some years, sensationally lock-up by taking a dose of poison that he had ended his life yesterday to the Calcutta police secreted on his person. In 1902 he was in that city, posing an a distinguished traveller, and advertised a lecture at Dalhousie Institutë, which was a terrible frost Mom recently be ap peared at Umbaila, and collected subscriptions, purporting to be for the Japanese Red Cross Society. The police, got on his track, and he. |'absconded. · ·The Calcutta police arrested him yesterday morning, and he was to have been sent to Umballa fortiet, but this morning he was found dead in his call. The post mbrient showed that death was due to poison... Letters written by him addressed to the Commissioner of Police contained a confession of murder committed in Mavilnysaggi
As the result of a fight between a foreman coolie and a blind mendicant, at High Street THE Dempo prints a rumour that the Japanese West Point, a grave charge may be preferred Government intends raising a' further loan of | against the latter. It is sued that the two two thousand million yen in Gress"Britalo" and men started to quarrel over some trifling mat America, offering South Sagbalion as a gua, ter when the coolie hit the blind man over, the rantee. With this amount the authorities will bead and face. Enraged at this treatm settle the part bellum finance. The Japan mendicant, who happened to have Mall states, that this report was current on his hand, is said to Sept. 14th, especially on the stock market of Tokio.
it is out of the question for the laity to d
Dustno blasting operations at Bay View on challenge expert opinion on the subject. the 24th inst, a large piece of stone was pro. Civil The officer of the Department are thorough-jected through the verandah and into the room
ly convinced that not a penny is wasted, of a house near, by, where it struck a Chinese, afated
and the fact that the death rate is decreasing || woman'so forcibly on the hip that she had to every year is their forcible argument that be removed to the Government Civil Hosp seems to give colour to that view. We hold where it was found that, though the the opinion, however, that 11.15 per cent of not broken, it was very badly, bal the Colony's revenue that is now applied to sanitation, even though In view of the im- portance' of having: Kaʻadoquati
inderstood that pre
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lodges of which the dace pular and enthusiastic member, ware represented. Many fiscal tokens of lasteful design, beal inscriptions, were heaped apod the grave, and included those the United Service Lodge 1341, the United Chapter, and the United Mark Lodge. The funeral was conducted with full military honcors the como, draped in the Union Jack and covered in floral tributes, being carried on gun carriage, drawn by a number of decea comrades, headed by the Band the Roy
March" West Kents, which played the in Sawed as the sorge slowly wended its way to the graveside, where I played the hymn,
the Lord." Sincere expresINE "For ever with th stone of regret at the untimely death of this promising young non-commissioned officer raising of heard on all sider lestined to hit popularity and the esteem in which he was holdin
· By this time the ar
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ing account of ike) AT Sydney the other day, the Premier was
officer of the bly, if his attention had been drawn to enrolled asked by Mr. Hurley, in the Legislative Assem- when the battleth article in reference to a report and samples of eight, whenever goods forwarded by Mr. J. B. Sutor, the Come As About mercial Agent in the East, to a person other: board wil than his official superior? Also was the Pre-opaving the door. 'mier. aware that a number of samples of goods age was full of smoku advised by Government had not been received, ont and managed t whereas similar samples sent to a private per Ables Bolt pocasch son, bad arrived, and were announced by bim to see the Chief Pi as being available for inspection? Was he, save the money in these further, aware that Mr. Sutter had on more thaneda mán to stand by in one occasion previously forwarded repons and master, went down sad, were
afe when a violent axplosion took samples of goods to pamous otherwise than was the abonly before 3.m. through his official superior, and would inquiry enveloped in black smoke. It wa be made and consideration given the question dous to go upon deck, so we deck
through a port hols. We tried whether it is advisible to permit such cora
but the scraw was so asili that:1 is alleged to have stated that he is at present: "master tried once more ind noc overworged?" Mr. Carruthers replied that he log the screw Both of us limpe had seen the article referred to. A collection and in a few minutes were nicer of samples, was tent by Mr. Sullor to the de boats in search Vicà Admin dar n-Chief partment, but it had gone astra some leathers had bead seat to a certain journal, but, as far as had been ascertained they were not of the same description as those sent for the departement, He was not aware that Mr. Suttor had previously sest reports and samples in the manner indicated, and there was no necessity for any inquiry. Mr. Suttor Anumber had been asked to send duplicates of the mis de mont sing samples.
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FOREIGN TROOPS IN CHINA.
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expected to be heard
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drawal of the foreign troops.from. North. It is anderstood. Italian Gove Ameri
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